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YOU YORUBA'S EAT NAKED SOUP

Okay... easy! eeeasy!!! See, this isn't about shaking table o. Who's me? Where the energy sef? Me that just started finishing two noodle packs... These are my hands o. 🙌 Before you crucify me, please hear me, or read me out...kikikiii. The Igbo woman who said it, really finish me, no! Us (no be only me be 'Yorubas') Indeed she left me shook! and woke! You'll soon understand why. **** A few months ago, I supervised a project, in the East. As part of our intervention, we organize trainings for cocoa farmers. And so, before daily commencement of activities, we do quality & compliance check. This includes checking the quality of food, drink and water, provided by the contracted event planner, before they're served. If they meet standard, they are served. Otherwise, they are rejected outrightly, or accepted based on a promise to comply going forward, and an open apology to participants. When you work with Oyinbos, then, t

SHOW UP AND TAKE ACTION!!!

Immediately after my National Youth Service, as a young graduate still seeking relevance, a friend added me to a group "Valuex" Valuex is a platform where information is exchanged through lecture delivery and quality content sharing. So, I started delivering lecture on this platform and there was a time, we were to choose from a wide range of topics. I couldn't choose from any topic and there was this topic, which people fail to pick. "Thriving as a start up" with little or no knowledge about entrepreneurship. I took the topic, using the knowledge I garnered from the Young African Leadership Initiative online courses and my experience as an associate of the chartered institute of customers relationship management. I delivered a top notch lecture and I got an invitation to speak at the Federal School of Statistics, Ibadan on the same topic. Lessons: Show up and take action. Somehow, someone is watching somewhere. Show up! Learn! Prepare! Opportunit